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Assessing A Young Writer’S Story, Julie Patterson
Assessing A Young Writer’S Story, Julie Patterson
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Now that's a story! Find out what this 1st grader is doing well and what our writer-in-residence would teach next.
Investigating Vocabulary And Reading Strategies With Middle Grades English Language Learners: A Research Synthesis, Brooke Kandel-Cisco, Yolanda Padrón
Investigating Vocabulary And Reading Strategies With Middle Grades English Language Learners: A Research Synthesis, Brooke Kandel-Cisco, Yolanda Padrón
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Recent data indicate that many adolescent English language learners (ELLs) comprehend English texts at only a limited literal level. The purpose of this research synthesis was to systematically identify and describe the research related to the English reading comprehension of middle grades ELLs while also making practical connections to instruction. Parameters were established to determine whether the collected research studies met the purpose of the synthesis and the standards for quality research, using the guiding principles for scientific research set forth in the National Research Council’s Scientific Research in Education. Three themes emerged across the 11 identified studies: (a) the …
Internships And The Assessment Of Student Learning, William K. Templeton, Karel A. Updyke, Robert B. Bennett
Internships And The Assessment Of Student Learning, William K. Templeton, Karel A. Updyke, Robert B. Bennett
Scholarship and Professional Work - Business
The use of internships is a powerful learning tool that allow business students to make connections between their classroom experience and the world of work. If designed appropriately and positioned correctly in the curriculum, they can also be an ideal opportunity to conduct assurance of learning activities related to business school accreditation. This study reports on survey results relating to business schools’ use of internships in their assurance of learning efforts and describes one school’s successful attempt to use internships as the key platform for its well-developed assurance of learning program.